Daisey's Ducks

We had three Mallard duck visiting us daily on our dock in all but the summer months. (Who knows where they went.) There was Black (beak) Bill, his son Sonny and Daisy, who we think was Black Bill's mate. Daisy made a bad decision at the end of March: she made a nest and laid her eggs in some bush right next to our pool - in the middle of "doggie territory" where Molly and Biff rule. After trying our best to keep "attack dog Molly" away from Daisy (we actually walked he on a leash in the backyard), she got out one day and she and Biff attacked and killed momma Daisy while she was sitting on her newly laid eggs. :(

I did not know what to do, so I candled the eggs with a strong LED flashlight and saw feint signs of blood vessels forming like a web inside. The eggs were still viable. A local wildlife refuge who had a incubator offered hatched them. (They need to be keep at 99 degrees!)

She had 9 eggs, one was cracked in the attack and two of the others did not make it to hatching. The guy who hatched them brought them to my house on May 5. 2015 when they were about 2 weeks old and I took possession of them . She had 9 eggs, one was cracked in the attack and two of the others did not make it to hatching. But the remaining 6 are strong, healthy and always hungry! We plan to take care of them and release them in the wild when they are old enough to fend for themselves in several weeks.